Curator Leo Michelson and gallery owner Charles Froelick called me up last year with an intriguing idea. They were pairing up 17 painters with 17 photographers, asking them to create a portrait of one another. The resulting show is titled Two of a Kind. I was paired with local painter Shanon Playford, whose beautiful, often...
Photographing people brings me in contact with a wide variety of interesting folks from all walks of life. Recently, I had the privilege of working with the beautiful and gracious Portland jazz vocalist Kacy Colleen. It’s common for artists and writers to use portraits of themselves that are 10 years old in publicity materials. Such...
. Photographed a fun set of images of a couple of young women artists, at work and play in various art studios. Especially love the one of India pitching herself into the very very red-hot kiln. (Actually a cool kiln lit by a flash with a red gel over it, sitting inside, triggered by a...
. I pulled together a stock photography shoot recently with some great models, and a beautiful location. A friend has a beautiful little house in the Alberta Arts District, and she graciously offered to let me photograph there. So I had my assistant Dan, my kid-wrangler Beth, and models Diana, Sapphira, Sahar, and Shelby join...
Emily Hyde is an award-winning artist. If you look at her stunning prints, you’ll see why. You can view images of her lovely drawings, prints, and etchings here and here and here. You’d think, from meeting her, that she was Scandinavian. But in truth, she hails from Estacada, Oregon. I had the privilege of photographing...
Last night I photographed an awareness event put on by Transitions Global, regarding their work here in Portland to help girls trapped in sex slavery and prostitution. We were privileged to have Weinland playing music for the event. Beautiful music; check it out on their MySpace page. They’re likened to Neil Young (in a good...
Yoshihiro Kitai is a Japanese printmaker, living in Portland, Oregon. We went to art school together, and now we both teach at that same school: Pacific Northwest College of Art. Since we were in school together, he has ‘burst’ onto the art scene, and his work can be seen online and in person at the...